Illuminating device for shaving purposes.



0. F. STUEFER.

ILLUMINATING DEVICE FOR SHAVING PURPOSES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1914.

Patented Mar. 5, 1918'.

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OTTO F. STUEFER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR .TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ILLUMINATING DEVICE FOR SHAVING PURPOSES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

Application filed September 16, 1914. Serial No. 862,000.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Or'ro F. STU'EFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Illuminating Devices for Shaving Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shaving lamps, and more especially to such lamps in combination with shaving implements such as safety razors. The object of my invention is to produce a lamp of this kind which will provide a more efficient illumination of this character than those heretofore devised.

According to my invention, a lamp is incorporated as a part of the safety razor, preferably being contained in the handle thereof. A portion or portions of the said handle are cut away to expose the lamp and allow it to cast the illumination directly upon the face of the party shaving, the light being especially concentrated at that portion of the face where the razor is in use.

Various other advantages of my invention will appear from the more detailed description which follows.

In the drawing, I have shown my invention as applied to the handle of a safety razor. In the said drawing Figure 1 is a I front elevation, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the said device. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the same, Fig. 4 is a perspective, partly in section, of a portion of the device, and Fig. 5 is an elevation of a modification of the device.

The handle 10 of the safety razor, preferably of metal, is tubular and receives the lamp 11, which may be of the type used in connection with telephone switchboards. A side of handle 10 is cut away or apertured at 12 opposite the lamp 11 so as to expose the same. The socket member 13 of the lamp is supported by the insulating bushing 14, which is carried by the metal plug 15. The latter is exteriorly screw-threaded and engages with a screw-thread on the interior of the tube 10. This construction allows the ready removal of the lamp and support as a unit when desired. The conductors 16 lead to the lamp terminals and pass through the aperture 17 inthe aforesaid plug. The said conductors are connected to a dry battery or other source of electrical energy (not shown).

The handle shown in the drawing is especially adapted for use in connection with a safety razor of the Gillette type in which is employed a blade having two cutting edges. The interiorly threaded support 18 for the blade holder is held in position by the plug 19, which enters the top of the member 10. The holder 18 comprises at its lower end a head 20 between which and the plug 19 and surrounding the shank of holder 18 is located a spring 21. The lower surface of the head 20 is grooved in two directions at 22 and 28, the said grooves extending clear across the bottom of the plate. The bottom of the recess in the tube 10, which is engaged by the head 20, carries a pair of small protuberances 24, which may be screw heads. These are engaged by one of the grooves 22, 23. By rotating the holder 18 the plate 20 may be made to assume any one of four positions each of which is at right angles to the preceding. In this way use may be made of both sides of the blade and still the illumination may be obtained from the lamp mounted as shown. It is obvious, however, that the handle might be cut away on both sides, as indicated in Fig. 5, and, in such case, it would not be necessary to provide the structure allowing rotation of the blade relative to the handle. It will be apparent however, that the first described form has the advantage that a portion of the handle, 2'. e. the continuous portion opposite the aperture in the same, acts as a reflector for the lamp. In any case the light is cast directly upon the face of the user and at the particular portion being traversed by the blade. Ow-

ing to the fact that the light source is located with electrical connections within said handle, and a screw'plug supporting the said lamp and its electrical connections and adapted to be inserted in the end of said handle.

2. The combination with a razor having a hollow handle, of an electric incandescent lamp supported within said handle, said handle having an aperture in one side thereof opposite to said lamp, and the opposite side of said handle being continous so as to act as a reflector for said lamp.

3. The combination with a hollow razor handle of a lamp contained within the same, said handle having an aperture upon one side opposite the said lamp and the other side of said handle being continuous so as to act as a reflector for said lamp, a holder for the razor blade mounted on said handle, and means whereby the said holder may be turned relatively to the saidhandle.

4. The combination with a hollow razor handle of a lamp contained within the same, said handle having an aperture upon one side opposite the said lamp, a holder support for the razor blade mounted on said handle, and means whereby the said holder may be turned relative to the said handle.

5. The combination with a hollow razor handle of an electric incandescent lamp supported within the said handle, said handle having an aperture on one side thereof opponasaoee site the said lamp, electrical connections for said lamp entering the end of the said han-' for the razor blade mounted in the end of said handle, and means whereby said holder may be turned relative to the said handle and operatively fixed in a number of diiferout working positions.

7. The combination with a hollow razor handle of a lamp contained within the same, said handle having an aperture upon one side opposite the said lamp, and a holding means for the razor blade mounted in the end of said handle, said holding means comprising a rotary head adapted to be positioned in a recess in the end of the hollow handle and a spring located between the rotary head and an abutment on the hollow handle for retaining the holding means in a number of different working positions.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of September, 1914;.

v OTTO F. STUEFER.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. RYAN,

A. N. WALL. 

